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Mother, mother, mother,
mother, mother, please.
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Mother, please, please, please.
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Don't... don't do this.
Don't do this.
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Lay down your life with your child,
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but don't do this.
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Welcome to
"very scary people."
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I'm Donnie wahlberg.
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The reverend Jim Jones
is the darling of politicians
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and Hollywood stars.
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By the mid-1970s,
the peoples temple has grown
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to over a thousand devout followers,
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but terrified by his erratic behavior,
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members of the group
begin to turn on the church,
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telling stories of sexual
and financial abuse.
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Now reporters are looking into the truth
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behind Jones' dark sunglasses.
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In an attempt to maintain control,
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Jim Jones is about
to make a horrifying decision.
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The peoples temple and Jim Jones
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made their headquarters here in ukiah
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about 100 miles north of San Francisco.
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In 1971, Jones began to spread out.
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His religion was a mix of faith healing
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and revelations with radical politics.
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He's doing fraudulent things.
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He's a chameleon.
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He can see what he needs to be,
and he becomes that.
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Many former temple
members to speak out about
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what was happening inside.
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One woman wrote him
a love letter saying, "I love you.
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I want to be with you.
I'll always follow you."
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He led the group
in mocking her naked body.
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Jones was intimidating the congregation
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with beatings and threats.
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Jim was pointing a gun at me and he said,
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"I'm going to shoot you."
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There were a couple of times,
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me walking in on him
with a man or a woman in bed.
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He said he was doing it for the cause
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when really he was
exploiting people sexually.
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He turns to drugs.
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That just increases his paranoia,
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and he is more and more
deceptive to his followers.
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Jones announces there's a treat.
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"Everyone, have a cup of wine."
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We all drank it.
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He announces it's poison.
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It was really a test grooming us
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for what was going to
happen on November 18th.
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On October 4, 1976, Bob Houston,
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a former prominent member
of the peoples temple,
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died under mysterious circumstances.
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Bob Houston was in peoples temple
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with his wife, Phyllis,
and their two children,
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and he left the temple.
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He fell off the train and was killed.
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The authorities didn't know
whether it was accident
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or suicide or something more sinister.
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And it turned out his father
had been a college friend
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of congressman Ryan.
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He contacted Leo Ryan,
who was his member of congress,
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and asked Ryan,
"would you look into this?"
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Ryan was very garrulous.
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He had a reputation of being
sort of a Maverick,
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a guy who liked crusades.
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He was what I call
an experiential legislator.
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He didn't just take a
bureaucrat's word for anything.
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He wanted to find out himself.
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He had a vast number of constituents
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who had younger loved ones
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who had gotten involved
in peoples temple,
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so he took it upon himself
to start looking into it.
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But by now Ryan wasn't the only one
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looking into the people's temple.
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A major exposé was announced
by "new west" magazine on Jones
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and the peoples temple.
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You always got the sense
that everybody knew
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there was something off here,
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but no one certainly wanted
to talk about it.
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It got me curious.
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On August 1, 1977,
the article was released.
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It had everything in it from the beatings
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to all the property people
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give up to the millions
of dollars that...
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That Jones had stashed
in foreign accounts,
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all the laws that were being broken,
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and it was great reporting.
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And they're going to get him.
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His followers will leave him,
so pretty much on the spot,
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he wants to move himself
and the bulk of peoples temple
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some place where they can't get at him.
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And before anyone
knew it, he was on his way to Guyana.
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He has never returned.
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There's also Jim Jones's pride.
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He's chased out of California
under humiliating circumstances.
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Then, by god, he is going
to make Jonestown
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such a socialist triumph.
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I left, I got ready to get to
get on the plane,
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and I just kind of looked back,
and I said,
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"it just feel like this is the last time
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I'm ever going to see
you guys again."
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In August 1977,
after an unfavorable article
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was released about
the peoples temple, Jones,
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who felt he had a lot of enemies,
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felt the only way he could keep
his followers loyal to him
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was to move them
to South America, to Guyana.
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So now Jones is going to make
their entire world Jonestown.
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We're going to the promised
land, land of milk and honey.
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I came down approximately
a year in advance of the big push.
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When it became clear that dad intended
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to move the entire organization,
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and we built most of what you
see in any image of Jonestown,
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and I had an amazing time doing it.
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By the time I went to live
in Jonestown in 1978,
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there were probably 700 people.
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Yay!
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As you pull up to the settlement,
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you hear over the loudspeakers,
"ah, the new members are here,"
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and whatnot, and people start,
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"yay," clapping and running
over to meet you.
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Hi.
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I left the church in '76 I think,
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but because my kids were in,
it was kind of hard to stay out.
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We went over to Guyana in July of 1978,
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because the kids were scheduled to go
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and so, I went over with them.
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At the time, it was what they wanted,
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it kept them off the streets,
so I figured,
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"yeah, they'll grow up,
they're grow out of it."
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It's the interior of
the south American jungle,
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and it is very, very beautiful.
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Very tall trees, you have toucans,
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there was a pavilion,
there was a kitchen area,
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it was quite a city in the
middle of the jungle.
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They had these little cottages.
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It was kind of like a glorified tent,
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but it was...
It was... it was built nicely.
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They had school for the kids.
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Uh, five.
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They had a pavilion where I
guess they had programs
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every once in a while.
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Everybody seemed to be happy.
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These are honey and coffee,
cans of various syrups,
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and, well, you can see the bleach.
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These are all various different
types of fruits, ketchup.
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Here's the Milo, an extremely good drink,
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that is unique to Guyana.
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As is the pattern with Jim Jones,
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the beautiful surface is just a façade
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for the darkness that lurks below.
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He and I argued quite
a bit publicly in Jonestown.
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Very few revered my father, if any.
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They feared him.
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The first thing that I saw,
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when I approached
the pavilion I was Jim Jones
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sitting in his chair, his throne,
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and a security guard
on each side with rifles,
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which was quite an escalation,
and the pavilion was surrounded
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with security guards with weapons.
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Right away, I wanted to leave.
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He was starting to get more paranoid.
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Jim says, "listen, from now on,
your everyday job
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is to be my personal security,
24 hours a day.
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As long as I'm outside of my house,
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you guys are to be
around me at all times."
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We surrendered our passports,
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surrendered any cash
that we may have had.
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Of the nearly thousand
members at Jonestown,
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nearly a third were children.
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About another third were elderly
people, many of them women.
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They have pension
checks, social security.
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The money can start to add up.
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There are expenses in running
a big operation like this,
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no doubt.
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Jonestown had a steady
income of about $39,000 a month.
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The idea that they had
found some sort of a paradise
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in Guyana lasted only a short time.
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You know, we weren't growing enough food,
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so we had to buy all the food...
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Almost all the food to feed
1,000 people three meals a day.
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It's very difficult to farm jungle soils.
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Jonestown was a mirage as a...
As an operation.
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They had too many people,
too few places to sleep or live.
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Jones himself was in worse
and worse health.
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It was very much running on fumes.
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I worked in the fields.
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I worked the orchards crew,
and I woke up in the morning,
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went for breakfast, which
consisted of rice and gravy,
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and we worked until lunch
and had rice with gravy
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and went to work
until it was time for sundown,
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so I was, like, skeletal.
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I got ready to get on the plane, and I...
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I just kind of looked back, and I said,
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"it just feel like this is the last time
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I'm ever going to see
you guys again."
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There was no religious services
whatsoever.
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It was all political.
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Jim Jones spoke over 24 hours a day.
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"Attention, attention,
attention."
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And we listened to his bemoaning
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the state of affairs and the enemy,
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and how they're out there
in the jungle waiting for us.
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It was just like the gestapo,
I mean, under Hitler
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that if somebody was negative
about the third reich,
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they would be disciplined
for having negative thoughts,
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and they would be turned in.
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Our children were so, um,
mind controlled,
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they believed that Jim Jones was
a prophet.
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We were even afraid to tell them
we were leaving,
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because we were afraid they'd turn on us.
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A few members escaped,
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calling Jonestown a virtual slave camp.
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Back in California,
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relatives were becoming
increasingly concerned
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about what was taking place in Guyana.
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You're under the supervision
of the authority that's there,
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and that's Jones.
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It was a life and death situation.
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Families and former
members back in California
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began meeting as a group.
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They called themselves
the concerned relatives.
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They wanted to make sure
that they were okay,
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because you couldn't call them,
and you couldn't really
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write them a letter, because someone else
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would probably read it first,
to see what they were saying.
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One of the people making
a lot of noise was grace stoen,
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the mother of Jones's 5-year-old son
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who was back at the camp in Guyana.
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The concerned relatives
began filing lawsuits
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for the custody of John Victor stoen.
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In Guyana, the news of the court
filing rocked Jim Jones.
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He left the United States.
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He couldn't go back there
for fear of being prosecuted,
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possibly going to jail.
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He didn't want that to happen.
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Then his lawyers were telling
him, "you can't even the leave
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the gate, the entrance of Jonestown
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because somebody could legally
just arrest you there.
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You better stay right
inside of Jonestown."
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If he was paranoid before,
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he really had reason to be this time.
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There was a moment in September of 1977
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when a custody order was made in Guyana
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seeking to obtain custody
of John Victor stoen,
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whom everyone in Jonestown
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believed to be
the biological son of Jim Jones.
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A judge there ordered Jones
to appear in court.
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He was livid.
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They came to believe that
the concerned relatives
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were seeking to destroy their community.
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Jones continued making threats
of revolutionary suicide,
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calling it "the white night."
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A white night was like
an emergency calling,
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like a 911 call.
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And everyone was to report
to the pavilion immediately.
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Jones would tell us the latest
life and death emergency
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that was happening and how
our community was threatened,
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and the only choice we had was
to commit revolutionary suicide.
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The conversation was going to be,
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"live or die,"
and I got to my mother first,
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and I says, "I don't care what he says.
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Don't argue with him.
I want to see him squirm,"
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because I never believed dad
would go through with it.
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Certainly it was psychologically
abusive, emotionally abusive.
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I was in dad's face about it, and he...
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He said, "you're...
You're just afraid to die."
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Here I am this 19-year-old kid who has,
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I feel, put my ass
on the line for my town.
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This man that I thought
the most cowardly being
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I'd ever known was accusing me
of being afraid of dying,
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and I'm screaming at him,
"I'm afraid to die?"
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And I actually take out
a pistol, cock it,
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and ram it up against my chin,
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just a twitch away
from blowing my brains out,
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and dad gets a revolver from somebody,
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and he puts it in his mouth uncocked.
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That's a revolver,
and that's a long pull away
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from doing any harm,
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but here we are screaming at each other,
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you know, about who's afraid to die.
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Back in San Francisco,
the concerned relatives
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were putting pressure on the media
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and congressman Ryan to do something.
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In November, right after the
election, he's going to go over.
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He's going to see for himself.
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He'll bring with him the media,
local reporters,
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someone from "the Washington post,"
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and a crack film crew from nbc,
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and even some of the concerned relatives,
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and they will go to Jonestown,
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and they will demand to be let in.
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Leo Ryan never asked
for security protection.
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It seems that he believed
that he would be protected
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by the news media,
and the news media believed
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that they would be protected
by being with
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the U.S. congressperson.
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He certainly felt that he
was doing something
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that no one else was willing to do.
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The conditions of the
peoples temple in San Francisco,
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the defectors who left the church
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before Jim Jones went to Jonestown,
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talked about many of these
abuses, sexual abuse,
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child abuse, physical abuse,
and so he wanted to protect
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his constituents.
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What they don't know is after
the white night
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some months earlier,
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where Jones said there was
poison and there wasn't,
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he had directed
Dr. Larry schacht
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to buy 1 full pound of cyanide powder,
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and that's enough for 1,800 lethal doses.
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It was pretty bad.
I was in terror.
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Welcome back to
"very scary people."
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On November 15, 1978,
congressman Leo Ryan
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arrives in Georgetown, Guyana.
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With him are 17 members
of the concerned relatives,
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two staffers and nine members
of the media.
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The plan is to talk
to the people of Jonestown
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and to Jim Jones himself to determine
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if people are free to leave
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or are prisoners
in Jones' twisted paradise.
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It would take days for
the congressman's group
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to get into Jonestown,
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and several of them would never get out.
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The temple's strategy
was to basically stall
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and to try to keep us out of Jonestown.
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We mysteriously had problems
with our passports.
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The U.S. embassy was somewhat
helpless to get us in there.
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I know there was a lot of back and forth,
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and I think at some point, it became,
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"we're coming whether
or not you say we can."
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There was intense preparation,
intense drilling, questions.
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The answers were all the same.
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"Oh, we love it here,
couldn't have been happier."
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His sons and I, we were in
Georgetown playing basketball.
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We were all on a
team, and a trip was planned for us
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to go in and do some scrimmaging
with the national team of Guyana
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and then play in some
Guyanese tournaments
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where local club teams played.
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Building up to that point
when we left, you could...
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You could sense a shift in
the morale of our fellow members
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that are in Jonestown like they
kind of didn't want us to leave
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as if we kind of made people
feel safe there.
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In retrospect,
clearer eyes would have known
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that was not a time to leave,
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but I also wanted to just
get away from the craziness,
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and mom was always trying to
get us clear of my father and...
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And the madness.
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We arrived in Jonestown
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on the evening of November 17, 1978.
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When we got to the gates,
we were really elated,
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and there were hundreds of people around.
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Perhaps the most high-profile person
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entering Jonestown aside
from congressman Ryan
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was nbc news correspondent Don Harris.
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Harris had earned the nickname
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Mr. Lucky because he had had
several close calls
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while reporting in Vietnam.
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Introduction to Jim Jones
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was really the most sobering thing
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because he appeared
to be sallow and weak,
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but what struck me was
that this entire community
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was in the hands of this man
who appeared to be ill.
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There's a lavish dinner
provided for them.
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There's pork.
There's Greens.
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There's even dessert.
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And we got an opportunity to
interview him during a dinner.
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When you asked him
a question, he would just...
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Just take off on tangents.
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A lot of it came across as paranoia,
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and he also railed against
the press and said,
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"you don't need to shoot me.
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Your words have that effect."
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Then that evening,
there was a performance
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by the singers and the dancers.
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Congressman Ryan gave his famous speech.
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But I can tell you right now
that from the few conversations
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I've had with some of the folks
here already this evening,
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that whatever the comments are,
there are some people here
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who believe that this is the best thing
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that ever happened to them
in their whole life.
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And the applause just
burst out and continued to thunder.
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It went on for an uncomfortably
long period of time.
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If you really listened to it,
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there's a frantic desperation in that.
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They had to convince him
of their loyalty.
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I passed a note to one
of the newspaper reporters.
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I wrote on the note,
"Vernon gosney, Monica bagby,
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help us get out of Jonestown."
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He dropped the note,
and this little boy said,
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"oh, he passed a note!
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He passed a note!"
I was dead.
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Jim Jones is now very well aware
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that at least some people
are going to want to go.
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Don Harris showed the note
to congressman Ryan,
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so he approached me after the event,
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and he said, "you were the first
to ask to leave.
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You will have the first seats
on the plane."
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Ryan made a plan.
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They were going to come back
the next morning
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and take with them anyone
who wanted to leave.
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Congressman Ryan
couldn't comprehend the danger
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he was in at all.
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He would say, you know,
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"you have the congressional
shield of protection over you."
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He was bequeathing me this protection
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that he himself didn't have.
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I was in terror the next day.
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I thought it was all over for me.
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We returned to Jonestown Saturday.
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More and more people had come forward.
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They wanted to leave,
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and the mood of the place
turned extremely dark.
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And then suddenly, the skies turned dark,
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and a wind whipped up,
and torrential rain came down.
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It was almost like an omen.
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Ultimately, 15 people want to go.
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Things are turning ugly.
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Don't you take my kids!
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I'm walking down this pathway,
and a mother is screaming,
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pulling the child one way,
the father screaming,
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00:25:21,375 --> 00:25:26,375
pulling the child the other way,
and I was stunned by it.
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00:25:26,459 --> 00:25:29,584
I recognized that we were
in a powder keg.
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Jones was just licking his lips
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and sucking his cheeks in and out.
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You could see how nervous he was getting.
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At the very end of the visit,
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Don Harris actually confronted Jim Jones
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with the note on camera.
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Last night, someone came
and passed me this note.
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As a journalist, he was
looking for that moment.
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You know, "okay, Jim.
Here's... here's the note."
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People play games, friend.
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00:26:00,918 --> 00:26:03,626
They lie. They lie.
What can I do about liars?
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Are you people going leave us?
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I just beg you.
Please leave us.
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Don Harris showing him that note ensured
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that he would be definitely be killed
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because he just humiliated
Jim Jones on camera.
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00:26:25,209 --> 00:26:29,334
So we boarded a large dump truck.
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The last defector in that line
was Larry Layton.
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He was a longtime church member
and trusted Jones' aid
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whom the defectors feared
wasn't really one of them,
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00:26:42,375 --> 00:26:45,709
and then there was
this tremendously loud cheer
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from the pavilion.
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Ryan is jumped from
behind by a man named Don sly
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who has a knife, screaming that,
"I'm going to kill you.
447
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You're going to die."
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00:26:57,042 --> 00:27:00,792
Temple members quickly pulled
Don sly off of congressman Ryan,
449
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and in the process, sly's hand got cut,
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and congressman Ryan
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ended up with a lot of blood
on his shirt.
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A short time later, congressman
Ryan was escorted to the truck,
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and he was looking
rather shaken and ashen.
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And then we started to leave Jonestown.
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At that moment, I am sure
that congressman Ryan
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knew the danger he was in.
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Someone had just attempted to kill him.
458
00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:33,667
Jim has a plan for what's going
to happen back at the airstrip.
459
00:27:33,751 --> 00:27:37,959
I never thought I
was ever going to really leave.
460
00:27:38,042 --> 00:27:42,459
There was a really strong
sense of foreboding.
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00:27:50,167 --> 00:27:52,959
I saw people who had been wounded
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and people who were dead.
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On November 18, 1978,
congressmen Leo Ryan
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left Jonestown with members of his staff,
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00:28:11,959 --> 00:28:13,292
members of the media
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00:28:13,375 --> 00:28:16,209
and 16 defectors from the peoples temple.
467
00:28:19,417 --> 00:28:22,709
I noticed that
Larry Layton skirted the...
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The frisking that congressman Ryan did
469
00:28:25,167 --> 00:28:29,042
and went around the other side
of the plane and boarded it.
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00:28:29,125 --> 00:28:31,667
As they were getting ready
to board the larger plane,
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00:28:31,751 --> 00:28:35,042
Don Harris wanted to do a quick
interview with the congressman.
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00:28:35,125 --> 00:28:36,876
I don't know.
What the... what he said
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was he intended to kill me.
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00:28:38,626 --> 00:28:41,959
A number of us felt that
there was some trouble ahead.
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00:28:42,042 --> 00:28:44,751
Don Harris and others were on high alert.
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00:28:44,834 --> 00:28:48,334
The matter now just kind of
falling back and regrouping
477
00:28:48,417 --> 00:28:49,918
and seeing what we have.
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When they look,
and here's the tractor coming,
479
00:28:52,751 --> 00:28:54,834
and the men on it are armed.
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The nbc cameramen very bravely
keeps his camera running.
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I sprinted for the far side of the plane.
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I got hit, got shot.
483
00:29:14,459 --> 00:29:18,500
That's when I looked out
the window and said,
484
00:29:18,584 --> 00:29:22,292
"they're killing everyone," and I turned,
485
00:29:22,375 --> 00:29:26,542
and Larry Layton shot me three times.
486
00:29:26,626 --> 00:29:30,250
Knowing I was in a place
where there was no shelter,
487
00:29:30,334 --> 00:29:32,876
sprinted for the jungle.
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And I ran until I got
to the edge of the runway,
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00:29:38,042 --> 00:29:40,334
and I collapsed on the ground.
490
00:29:40,417 --> 00:29:43,167
I saw blood all over, and I just thought,
491
00:29:43,250 --> 00:29:47,500
"well, I'm dying," and passed out.
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00:29:47,584 --> 00:29:50,125
I continued to hear some gunfire.
493
00:29:50,209 --> 00:29:54,167
It was more slow and deliberate gunfire.
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00:29:54,250 --> 00:29:56,250
I turned around.
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00:29:56,334 --> 00:29:58,500
Congressmen Ryan had been hit,
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00:29:58,584 --> 00:30:01,083
and there was blood
coming out of his neck,
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00:30:01,167 --> 00:30:04,125
and I started to move towards him,
498
00:30:04,209 --> 00:30:06,292
and then he was shot again and fell,
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00:30:06,375 --> 00:30:11,334
and I ran under the plane
and hid behind a wheel,
500
00:30:11,417 --> 00:30:13,918
and then the shots just kept ringing out,
501
00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:17,042
and I was playing dead with my head down,
502
00:30:17,125 --> 00:30:19,751
and then all of a sudden I was hit,
503
00:30:19,834 --> 00:30:22,167
and I was shot five times.
504
00:30:24,375 --> 00:30:27,751
When the gunfire stopped entirely,
505
00:30:27,834 --> 00:30:31,626
I worked my way out
to the edge of the jungle,
506
00:30:31,709 --> 00:30:36,500
and I saw people who had been wounded
507
00:30:36,584 --> 00:30:38,167
and people who were dead.
508
00:30:38,250 --> 00:30:40,834
Congressman Ryan was dead.
509
00:30:40,918 --> 00:30:44,918
Don Harris was dead,
and there were wounded people,
510
00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:49,792
some of them in really serious
condition like Jackie speier.
511
00:30:49,876 --> 00:30:52,334
Five people are dead at the scene.
512
00:30:52,417 --> 00:30:54,250
The others are critically wounded.
513
00:30:54,334 --> 00:30:56,125
They're left there not knowing
514
00:30:56,209 --> 00:30:58,334
if someone's going to kill them off
515
00:30:58,417 --> 00:31:00,876
or if someone's coming back to help them.
516
00:31:02,584 --> 00:31:06,125
Back at Jonestown, Jones called a meeting
517
00:31:06,209 --> 00:31:09,834
and called everybody to the pavilion.
518
00:31:09,918 --> 00:31:12,334
They all gather,
and Jones is up on stage,
519
00:31:12,417 --> 00:31:14,250
but they notice something
that's different
520
00:31:14,334 --> 00:31:19,709
because there's guards with guns
all along the perimeter.
521
00:31:32,292 --> 00:31:34,459
And he said, "life will
never be the same,
522
00:31:34,542 --> 00:31:35,918
and we've killed
a congressman."
523
00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:38,876
He made everybody complicit.
524
00:31:38,959 --> 00:31:40,292
"The government's going to blame us,
525
00:31:40,375 --> 00:31:42,667
and they're going to
come parachuting in here,
526
00:31:42,751 --> 00:31:46,417
they're going to kill all of us,
even the children,
527
00:31:46,500 --> 00:31:52,167
and what we need to do is
we need to make this gesture."
528
00:32:01,417 --> 00:32:03,918
And that was the call of death.
529
00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:07,167
That's when they called
Georgetown, where I was,
530
00:32:07,250 --> 00:32:11,250
saying that everybody was
killing themselves in Jonestown.
531
00:32:11,334 --> 00:32:13,709
We got the message that orders
had been sent
532
00:32:13,792 --> 00:32:15,709
that we were to get revenge.
533
00:32:15,792 --> 00:32:18,584
That message back was clear signal to us
534
00:32:18,667 --> 00:32:20,334
that something terrible was happening.
535
00:32:20,417 --> 00:32:22,542
Things were going farther and...
536
00:32:22,626 --> 00:32:27,167
And much worse than had...
Had ever happened before.
537
00:32:27,250 --> 00:32:29,626
He said, "we're going to
all kill ourselves."
538
00:32:29,709 --> 00:32:32,167
We're like, "no, we're
not doing that."
539
00:32:32,250 --> 00:32:36,667
He gave us those final orders,
and he got off the radio,
540
00:32:36,751 --> 00:32:38,834
and there was radio silence.
541
00:32:38,918 --> 00:32:40,792
It was a harrowing night
of trying to find out
542
00:32:40,876 --> 00:32:43,125
what the heck was going on.
543
00:32:43,209 --> 00:32:44,542
So we go down to the police station,
544
00:32:44,626 --> 00:32:46,334
and we're asking questions,
and, you know,
545
00:32:46,417 --> 00:32:48,918
the police officers
there really can't tell us much.
546
00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:50,459
Stephan and maybe a couple of other guys
547
00:32:50,542 --> 00:32:52,167
went to the American embassy.
548
00:32:52,250 --> 00:32:53,751
They're over there banging on the doors
549
00:32:53,834 --> 00:32:56,500
trying to find out what's going on.
550
00:32:56,584 --> 00:32:58,918
They wouldn't let them in the embassy.
551
00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:01,792
They wouldn't even address them.
552
00:33:01,876 --> 00:33:04,751
Back at the compound,
some of Jones's most ardent
553
00:33:04,834 --> 00:33:10,709
followers have prepared
a poison-laced kool-aid drink.
554
00:33:10,792 --> 00:33:11,918
It's not kool-aid.
555
00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:15,751
It's flavor aid, a cheap knockoff.
556
00:33:15,834 --> 00:33:19,125
Jones asked family members and mothers
557
00:33:19,209 --> 00:33:21,918
to line up with their children first
558
00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:25,334
and to administer this potion.
559
00:33:25,417 --> 00:33:29,542
It was a mixture of cyanide, flavor aid,
560
00:33:29,626 --> 00:33:34,709
and various tranquilizers in a huge vat.
561
00:33:34,792 --> 00:33:37,584
They're going to do the
babies and the children.
562
00:33:37,667 --> 00:33:39,792
They bring out syringes.
563
00:33:39,876 --> 00:33:44,542
His mistresses and secretaries
gave all of children the poison,
564
00:33:44,626 --> 00:33:47,209
squirted the poison in their mouth.
565
00:33:47,292 --> 00:33:49,334
Not only were we
not there to stand up for them,
566
00:33:49,417 --> 00:33:51,209
stand up, and maybe
stand against my father,
567
00:33:51,292 --> 00:33:53,584
but by... by their
understanding of things,
568
00:33:53,667 --> 00:33:55,751
we were out killing people.
569
00:34:10,834 --> 00:34:12,667
My mother was standing against my father,
570
00:34:12,751 --> 00:34:15,334
trying to fight it,
trying to take him on,
571
00:34:15,417 --> 00:34:16,751
and when you hear over the loudspeaker,
572
00:34:16,834 --> 00:34:18,959
"mother, mother, mother,
please don't do this,"
573
00:34:19,042 --> 00:34:22,459
she was resisting and was restrained
574
00:34:22,542 --> 00:34:24,834
trying to steer things away,
certainly away from,
575
00:34:24,918 --> 00:34:26,459
you know, some of
the crazy things he was...
576
00:34:26,542 --> 00:34:31,459
He was saying and doing
but also away from suicide.
577
00:34:31,542 --> 00:34:34,709
Jones is telling
everyone, "it's painless."
578
00:34:34,792 --> 00:34:38,375
"It's easy," and of course,
death by cyanide
579
00:34:38,459 --> 00:34:41,083
is one of the worst possible ways to die,
580
00:34:41,167 --> 00:34:45,083
robs your body of the ability
to take in oxygen,
581
00:34:45,167 --> 00:34:46,500
and so you froth at the mouth.
582
00:34:46,584 --> 00:34:48,876
You go into convulsions.
You... you suffocate.
583
00:34:48,959 --> 00:34:50,167
It... it takes a while.
584
00:34:50,250 --> 00:34:51,792
It's... it's terrible.
585
00:34:56,792 --> 00:35:01,083
So by then, you know,
what are parents going to do?
586
00:35:01,167 --> 00:35:05,876
Like, how could you have
your child 20 feet away dying?
587
00:35:05,959 --> 00:35:10,918
I mean, he just took
whatever possibility of people
588
00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:15,042
responding away from them
and killed the children.
589
00:35:15,125 --> 00:35:20,125
They don't want it,
and Jones is screaming at them.
590
00:35:25,083 --> 00:35:27,000
And the ones who don't want to cooperate
591
00:35:27,083 --> 00:35:30,334
are held down and forcibly injected.
592
00:35:30,417 --> 00:35:33,918
There were guards
surrounding the perimeter.
593
00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:35,959
A few people try to run for it.
594
00:35:36,042 --> 00:35:39,459
One or two escape.
The rest are captured.
595
00:35:43,250 --> 00:35:46,751
We heard, "well, they found
300 bodies in Jonestown."
596
00:35:46,834 --> 00:35:51,334
The first number I heard
was 400 maybe, and I thought,
597
00:35:51,417 --> 00:35:54,417
"god, surely you wouldn't
take them all."
598
00:36:08,417 --> 00:36:12,167
By Saturday night, there was
an eerie quiet in Jonestown,
599
00:36:12,250 --> 00:36:13,542
but at the airstrip,
600
00:36:13,626 --> 00:36:16,250
the survivors were struggling
to stay alive.
601
00:36:18,500 --> 00:36:22,417
After the shooting, a
number of the villagers came out
602
00:36:22,500 --> 00:36:25,000
and asked to help us.
603
00:36:25,083 --> 00:36:31,209
We had bottles of rum and other
spirits to help ease the pain,
604
00:36:31,292 --> 00:36:33,584
but there weren't painkillers.
605
00:36:33,667 --> 00:36:35,792
I remember saying to Jackie speier,
606
00:36:35,876 --> 00:36:37,667
"there's one pain pill here.
607
00:36:37,751 --> 00:36:40,751
Do you want it now,
or do you want it later?"
608
00:36:40,834 --> 00:36:45,125
And she decided to take it later.
609
00:36:45,209 --> 00:36:49,918
When I awoke some
hours later, I was in excruciating pain,
610
00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:52,792
more pain than
I'd ever experienced in my life.
611
00:36:52,876 --> 00:36:54,250
A bunch of Guyanese came,
612
00:36:54,334 --> 00:36:57,459
and they all carried me to the tent,
613
00:36:57,542 --> 00:37:01,083
and that's where I stayed that night.
614
00:37:01,167 --> 00:37:02,751
It was a difficult night.
615
00:37:02,834 --> 00:37:05,834
They would come occasionally
into the tent
616
00:37:05,918 --> 00:37:08,209
where they had me on the airstrip
617
00:37:08,292 --> 00:37:12,375
and give me swigs of Guyanese
rum which is very strong rum.
618
00:37:12,459 --> 00:37:14,542
That was the sedative I had.
619
00:37:16,459 --> 00:37:19,876
As daylight approached,
Guyanese soldiers arrived
620
00:37:19,959 --> 00:37:21,667
and secured the airstrip
621
00:37:21,751 --> 00:37:25,709
so that additional
medevac planes could come in.
622
00:37:25,792 --> 00:37:27,751
We were 19 hours in the jungle.
623
00:37:27,834 --> 00:37:29,459
Guyanese defense force came.
624
00:37:29,542 --> 00:37:33,209
They had a doctor,
and he gave me two aspirin,
625
00:37:33,292 --> 00:37:35,751
and small planes started coming,
626
00:37:35,834 --> 00:37:37,834
and they started evacuating the injured
627
00:37:37,918 --> 00:37:42,209
back to Georgetown along
with the newspaper reporters.
628
00:37:44,250 --> 00:37:47,125
I had Greg Robinson's camera gear,
629
00:37:47,209 --> 00:37:51,542
and walked around to a place
where I had a vantage point
630
00:37:51,626 --> 00:37:55,042
of the plane and the bodies
around the plane.
631
00:37:55,125 --> 00:37:59,375
And, uh, that's the last shot I took.
632
00:37:59,459 --> 00:38:02,876
Larry Layton was taken
by villagers to the local jail
633
00:38:02,959 --> 00:38:06,083
and held there until
the Guyanese defense forces
634
00:38:06,167 --> 00:38:08,959
came the next day and arrested him.
635
00:38:09,042 --> 00:38:11,459
For the surviving temple
members in Georgetown,
636
00:38:11,542 --> 00:38:14,959
that Saturday night
was just as terrifying.
637
00:38:15,042 --> 00:38:17,584
I was in shock
even as I was out wandering,
638
00:38:17,667 --> 00:38:19,626
trying to find out what was going on.
639
00:38:19,709 --> 00:38:21,375
Knowing all the while, something terrible
640
00:38:21,459 --> 00:38:23,125
is happening but knowing...
641
00:38:23,209 --> 00:38:25,292
Not knowing what else I could do.
642
00:38:27,167 --> 00:38:32,334
We heard, "well, they found
300 bodies in Jonestown."
643
00:38:32,417 --> 00:38:35,834
At dawn, the Guyana
defense force raided Jonestown.
644
00:38:35,918 --> 00:38:40,375
At first, the body count
was less than 300.
645
00:38:40,459 --> 00:38:42,626
The families in the U.S.
and Georgetown
646
00:38:42,709 --> 00:38:46,459
hoped that their loved ones
would be found alive.
647
00:38:46,542 --> 00:38:48,626
As for Jim Jones himself,
648
00:38:48,709 --> 00:38:51,292
they found his body the next day.
649
00:38:51,375 --> 00:38:54,250
Only two people among the dead
in Jonestown
650
00:38:54,334 --> 00:38:57,000
didn't die of cyanide poisoning.
651
00:38:57,083 --> 00:38:58,292
One was Jim Jones.
652
00:38:58,375 --> 00:39:02,042
The other was his
personal nurse, Annie Moore.
653
00:39:02,125 --> 00:39:06,626
Yeah, I know dad was shot in the head.
654
00:39:06,709 --> 00:39:08,542
He saw the way everybody else was dying,
655
00:39:08,626 --> 00:39:12,209
and he couldn't bring himself
to die that horrible death,
656
00:39:12,292 --> 00:39:15,334
so he had someone shoot him in the head.
657
00:39:15,417 --> 00:39:16,626
Good evening.
Here's what's happening.
658
00:39:16,709 --> 00:39:18,000
We're interrupting our special
659
00:39:18,083 --> 00:39:20,209
broadcasting to bring you
this special report.
660
00:39:20,292 --> 00:39:22,709
Bodies are strewn all over the place.
661
00:39:22,792 --> 00:39:26,250
The death toll at
Jonestown now stands at 405,
662
00:39:26,334 --> 00:39:31,667
but it is rising as more bodies
are, in fact, being found.
663
00:39:31,751 --> 00:39:36,250
I think the first number I heard
was, like, 250, 250,
664
00:39:36,334 --> 00:39:41,125
400 maybe, and I thought, "okay."
665
00:39:41,209 --> 00:39:44,584
"God, surely you wouldn't
take them all," you know?
666
00:39:44,667 --> 00:39:50,250
And then the next thing I knew,
the number had doubled.
667
00:39:51,584 --> 00:39:54,250
Then the U.S. army came in
and found more bodies,
668
00:39:54,334 --> 00:39:56,292
children underneath their parents,
669
00:39:56,375 --> 00:39:58,542
husbands on top of their wives.
670
00:40:10,125 --> 00:40:14,459
It was years and years
of putting up a good front,
671
00:40:14,542 --> 00:40:19,125
but every night, all night,
devastating dreams,
672
00:40:19,209 --> 00:40:22,751
and in the dreams, everyone's alive
673
00:40:22,834 --> 00:40:26,083
and those people that I'd felt
I'd failed the most,
674
00:40:26,167 --> 00:40:28,918
and every morning, I'd wake up
and learn all over again
675
00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:30,500
they were dead, and...
676
00:40:30,584 --> 00:40:33,417
And so I'd have to go
through that grief again.
677
00:40:33,500 --> 00:40:35,751
You never get over it.
You know, you never...
678
00:40:35,834 --> 00:40:37,959
You just live with it.
679
00:40:38,042 --> 00:40:44,083
Jim Jones based his own
ego on how people responded to him.
680
00:40:44,167 --> 00:40:48,876
He got his sense of himself
from other people.
681
00:40:48,959 --> 00:40:53,000
If you left the church, you were
essentially indicating to Jones
682
00:40:53,083 --> 00:40:54,959
that you thought he was worthless.
683
00:40:55,042 --> 00:40:57,375
I shall do all the miracles that you said
684
00:40:57,459 --> 00:40:59,334
your god would do and never did.
685
00:40:59,417 --> 00:41:01,000
I think Jim was sick.
686
00:41:01,083 --> 00:41:03,000
He needed those people around him.
687
00:41:03,083 --> 00:41:05,876
He couldn't just go off
and die by himself.
688
00:41:05,959 --> 00:41:10,334
He needed... he needed to take
a bunch of people with him.
689
00:41:10,417 --> 00:41:14,751
I've maintained to be and
declared to be your only savior.
690
00:41:18,667 --> 00:41:20,375
The massacre at Jonestown remains
691
00:41:20,459 --> 00:41:23,417
one of the most haunting
chapters in American history.
692
00:41:23,500 --> 00:41:28,334
On December 6, 1978, survivors
in San Francisco filed papers
693
00:41:28,417 --> 00:41:30,751
to officially dissolve
the peoples temple,
694
00:41:30,834 --> 00:41:34,959
ending Jim Jones' twisted vision
that mixed self-glorification
695
00:41:35,042 --> 00:41:36,459
and social good.
696
00:41:36,542 --> 00:41:39,083
There was almost $10 million
dollars in the church's accounts
697
00:41:39,167 --> 00:41:42,876
and another million in cash
and gold at the Jonestown site.
698
00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:47,375
In his will, Jones left most of
the money to the Soviet union.
699
00:41:47,459 --> 00:41:49,500
Instead, it was paid out
to family members
700
00:41:49,584 --> 00:41:51,500
who filed wrongful death claims
701
00:41:51,584 --> 00:41:54,292
and for the removal
of the bodies from Guyana.
702
00:41:54,375 --> 00:41:57,542
Forty years later,
nothing remains of Jonestown.
703
00:41:57,626 --> 00:41:59,042
Within weeks of the tragedy,
704
00:41:59,125 --> 00:42:01,792
the local people tore the place down.
705
00:42:01,876 --> 00:42:03,167
I'm Donnie wahlberg.
706
00:42:03,250 --> 00:42:07,000
Thanks for watching
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